WAVE 3 anchor Dawne Gee sues Baptist Health over ‘negligent’ care – WDRB 41 Louisville News
LOUISVILLE, Ky., (WDRB) — WAVE 3 anchor Dawne Gee has filed a lawsuit against Baptist Health Louisville over alleged “negligent” treatment she received last May.
Gee claims she went to Baptist on May 20, 2014, with severe leg pain and signs of a “potentially life threatening condition, a blood clot,” but the hospital did not have the “equipment and/or personnel necessary” to perform the necessary tests.
Kirsten Daniel, an attorney for Gee, said “her treatment was unforgivable and cruel. If they were willing to treat Dawne Gee like that, a local celebrity who they used in advertising …how will they treat just a regular person off the street needing regular care? That’s what Dawne is most concerned about.”
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Jefferson Circuit Court, claims the hospital “negligently inflicted unnecessary severe pain” on Gee through poor treatment, including failed attempts to insert a needle.
“Ms. Gee screamed in pain as the area around the needle became red and swollen,” the lawsuit claims.
Also, a nurse told Gee that she and her family “were getting on her nerves,” according to the suit.
Gee’s family, according to the suit, ordered that nurse not to touch Gee again and demanded someone else take over.
